Health and Social Care

MA Health and Social Care

Mode: full-time

Overview & facilities
The Health and Social Care Masters at Middlesex in London will develop the conceptual, analytical and research skills required to play a role in shaping modern health and social care services. We offer an intellectual setting within which you can develop a critical understanding of health and social care policy and practice, focusing on the increasing inter-relationships between health and social care and their implications for providers and service users.

Whilst studying the Health and Social Care Masters you will evaluate the role of partnerships in improving health and social welfare will be explored, taking into account different organisational and professional perspectives and their impact on service delivery.

While subject matter is largely UK-focused, the concepts and ideas examined are more widely applicable and opportunities are provided to explore issues from wider European-global perspective.

Based at our Hendon campus in London, you will benefit from our excellent student facilities, including the Sheppard Library, which provides an effective and innovative learning environment for all our students.

• Step-off points at postgraduate certificate or postgraduate diploma stages are possible
• Work Based learning and Internship options available where you may draw on your current working/internship experience to produce material for assessment.

The programme aims to:

• To provide an intellectual setting within which students can develop an appreciation of substantive areas of health and social care policy, provision and practice
• To consider the causes of health, welfare and social disadvantages, their implications and how they might be addressed through national and local policy and provision.
• To critically evaluate user involvement in the provision of health and social care services
• To develop and improve students’ critical and analytical skills as applied to health and social care.
• To introduce students to a critical understanding of the respective roles of state, private, voluntary and informal provision of health, social care and welfare
• To critically evaluate the role of ‘partnerships’ in improving health and social welfare, recognising the different organisational and professional perspectives and their impact on service delivery.
• To allow students to pursue their own areas of interest and expertise through optional module
• To equip students with skills to appraise and undertake research in the area of health and social care
• To encourage students to critically reflect on their own research skills through the development and supervision of a substantive piece of relevant research.